Sentence examples for belligerent of from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, leaner of body and less belligerent of mood than we knew him, Rooney played his first full 90 minutes since that public fallout in September.

But the Iranians have tricky relations with Muqtada al-Sadr, the most belligerent of Iraq's Shia leaders, and shrink from picking a sectarian fight with Sunni fanatics.

America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in wartime (on Japan) and has become increasingly belligerent of late.

The most damaged, scarred, and belligerent of Michael Vick's dogs — the hardest cases — were sent to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, on a thirty-seven-hundred-acre spread in the canyons of southern Utah.

Each said the other supported "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, the scarlet letter of this election cycle.The most conservative groups, able to be picky, endorsed Mr Tiahrt as being the more belligerent of the two on matters of God and guns.

Give him a call and say, 'I miss you, buddy!'" Murray, that most belligerent of characters, on this occasion agreed with the pundits that he needed to shake things up.

The gallery is scheduled to open in autumn 2014 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and will tell the history of the belligerent kingdom of 7th-century Mercia, and of the discovery of the hoard.

He is a vocal advocate of a belligerent brand of hockey, he argues for the value of fighting and he rails against rules that might soften it up.

History, Gray writes, offers no new dawns or sharp breaks, and, from the French Revolution to the war on terror, he is as critical of the humanist belief in progress as of the "belligerent optimism" of neoconservatives.

Erzberger's proposal of July 6 had been intended to pave the way for Pope Benedict XV's forthcoming note to the belligerents of both camps.

In response, the acting general counsel of the Pentagon, Robert Taylor, reassured Mr. McCain that the 2001 law already bestowed the right to attack "co-belligerents" of Al Qaeda not just those somehow involved with the attacks.